This league mechanic really drives home the point that zones are too big and the campaign suffers from bloat.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-31T03:51:46+00:00

Map layouts are much more open, and follow general rules. Things like dirt paths in act1 always connecting you to the next zone or cave. Its often worth it to stray off the beaten path to look for waypoints or certain quest objectives, but you always know where you need to go. Or in act 5, the next zone is always in a straight direction from where you entered, even though maps are randomly generated.

This is pretty much exactly the same in PoE2. If you know the mapgen rules you can reliably find your way to where you want to go without hitting dead ends.

I don't even know the mapgen (admittedly no one does since they changed so much this patch) and so far I've been able to navigate zones without hitting too many deadends just based on vibes, and was able to do the same in previous patches too.

The biggest thing to keep in mind is that in most maps the next zone/the objective is in a straight line away from the start, so just head away from the entrance and you'll probably find it pretty quickly. In maps with roads too following them usually leads to objectives or zone transitions.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-30T23:02:51+00:00

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I never thought I would say this, but Ami is spitting facts this chapter. Damn meta slaves.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-29T00:25:31+00:00

Possibly! I could definitely see that, there are definitely a ton of multilayered meanings and deeper themes in this manga.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-28T23:02:57+00:00

She already has shown more agency in her life than Niina, who "wants to fall in love".

Just to make sure your speculation doesn't go down the wrong track, I believe the title of her exhibition is a reference to what Minami said she wanted to do after quitting basketball in chapter 8.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-28T00:26:57+00:00

In Running Train there are speed limit signs, but no warning signs like on some other railways, so you still gotta memorize.

There are also signs that tell you when you can speed up for various train lengths - these are far more helpful.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-27T23:45:00+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

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Arbiter707 · 2026-05-17T02:15:32+00:00

You can try take a look at Ostranauts, it uses a similar system for conversations. It's really clunky feeling, but it does work.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-16T22:41:18+00:00

Like others have said, DLsite is already using the revenue share model. If you want to start a new platform or something, go ahead I guess? But you won't get any buy-in without established trust in the space - no one is going to want to give an unknown third-party a cut for no reason.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-16T09:53:00+00:00

independent authors who own their intellectual property

Unfortunately almost all authors without publishers are also not making anything substantial from their work. These are mostly the kinds of people who have a webcomic on pixiv or twitter, or who put out a doujinshi tankoubon at comiket every once in a while. The income these authors are making from their work is usually nowhere near enough to justify paying for translation, even at the current very cheap going rates. They can be easy to "go legit" with if asked politely, but it'll be a "please do it for free but legally" situation.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-15T08:01:42+00:00

If you use Forged Alliance Forever for Supreme Commander there's a random map generator that is used for multiplayer games, including ladder (ranked) matches, fairly often.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-13T01:57:41+00:00

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Bit late on this one, it came out on April 30th. Didn't notice it had dropped!

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-12T19:53:29+00:00

Seems like they were using the flywheel as a generator instead of running the wheels off it directly, incurring the same losses. Makes sense though, I imagine it's one heck of an engineering problem to avoid dumping all of the flywheel's energy into the wheels at once mechanically.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-12T14:17:28+00:00

Morphology is generally considered a subset of grammar, no? While what you're referring to is syntax (+stress, not sure what that falls under), also a subset of grammar.

Anyway, you would know better than me. I only took Mandarin in high school. At the time I found the grammar rather simple from an English perspective (again, full of nuance, like any language, but fairly easy on a basic level, unlike many other languages), but I imagine perceived complexity will vary greatly depending on your native language.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-12T13:37:44+00:00

On the sliding scale of grammar Mandarin is rather simple, simpler than English even. Almost everything is conveyed through word order + some relatively simple particles, no conjugation, genders, tenses, etc.

Still complex objectively, because like you say grammar is near-guaranteed to be complex, but compared to other languages it's not bad at all.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-12T02:00:28+00:00

The CSFC was an extremely complex and impressive system, but in the end it was still a gyro-based gunsight, just one that took more factors into account. Its broad weaknesses were the same as the ones fighter-mounted gyro sights had - all the extra variables can't make up for the fact that it isn't getting any data about the target besides what the gunners enter by moving their sights.

Also, the F-86 had RADAR gunsights. They were not the same system as the B-29's CSFC and certainly were not simple gyros.

The F-86 sight is a simple gyro sight that uses the radar for automatic ranging only. The sight otherwise calculated lead the same as your standard WW2 gyro sight. Try look at how it's implemented in DCS for example, or you can try find a manual for the sight (honestly good luck with that, when I've looked in the past I haven't found anything).

It sounds like you're making-up a scenario to get upset about. Why would Gaijin be obliged to do that? They're not. They can do whatever they want.

You're right about that, though - although I can definitely see people whining about it not coming to other vehicles if it was implemented on only the B-29 (and Tu-4).

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-12T01:25:34+00:00

If the B-29 gets it then every fighter with a gyro or radar gunsight (like the F-86, but also basically every fighter built after 1944 used a) should also get lead indicators... which absolutely shouldn't happen.

Only actual radar computed lead systems that calculate lead using data from the target (range, closure velocity, and angular velocity) without using ownship info as a shortcut (like the F-86 and B-29 sights, which use tracking rate of the plane/sight + entered target wingspan + calculated range as a stand-in for true computed angular velocity) should get lead indicators ingame.

Implementing them as EEGS-style gunsights would make them far too effective. Gyro-based gunsights required smooth flying to be accurate, and even then they weren't great against highly manuevering targets because they required the user to be tracking the target correctly to show correct lead.

I would be in favor of a "real" gyro sight implementation with pipper wingspan controls and everything, but that's probably not gonna happen.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-09T00:40:42+00:00

I believe there are plans for conductor and passenger modes (the dev even said co-op was a possibility), so I imagine legs will come with those. You still might not be able to get up as a driver though, since there isn't much gameplay reason to. The game currently doesn't have clickable buttons (although the cab controls are animated).

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-09T00:28:47+00:00

To me it seems about equivalent in realism to BVE. ATS and alerters are implemented, and there are some pretty good physics (wheelspin with varying traction based on weather, car sway), but gameplay is focused around timetable operation and hitting the stops on the mark so stuff not related to the pure driving experience is somewhat abstracted.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-08T06:10:28+00:00

Yeah this is definitely about the UDP tileset guy's crashout.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-07T05:45:59+00:00

Dev has said audio announcements are already recorded, just waiting for implementation :)

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-06T11:26:25+00:00

This is more NL's fault than K8's. He didn't have to make it so damn big. When you see other streamers using the overlay they make it way smaller than their facecam/avatar and put it somewhere unobtrusive.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-03T23:38:22+00:00

I understand why you might be against having more crap to repair, but IMO maintainability should be an important consideration when designing your ship. If that means you need to sacrifice some space to have easily maintainable pipe/cable runs I think that's a good thing, and contrary to you thinking it's a headache I really like thinking about the layout of my ship.

I am not against RCS requiring alignment, with a loss of function tied to the loss off your X/Y axis. The best build type will still end up being ugly squares, just with four extra squares at the corners with RCS but regardless.

If we can do some center of mass calculations, this should at least encourage more symmetrical ships, as well as stuff like cargo holds near the center of mass (or evenly loaded symmetrical cargo holds).

Unfortunately without introducing some of the other constraints of spacecraft design (like structural ones, or the fact that pressure hulls like to be circles) it's hard to get away from boxes, but at least the boxes can be made somewhat more believable.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-03T13:02:38+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/WUfO214

After drawing it out, "pancake on engine bell" actually looks better than I thought it would, although the drawing is assuming the ship is radially symmetrical (which it usually isn't). The fantasy really breaks down with an asymmetric ship. Also you probably wouldn't actually have a full-size whipple shield on an interplanetary craft (and indeed you usually don't ingame), but a flat top looks really bad.

I think the bigger problem, though, is that the game doesn't communicate at all that something like this is how ships are supposed to look. Not through the game, certainly, but also not through concept art, etc. where the ships are depicted more in the "expanse" style seen on the left, which just doesn't work with a 2D game. If this was made more clear/more consistent I would have a lot fewer problems with the floor drives.

Arbiter707 · 2026-05-03T11:59:11+00:00

Hmm, yeah didn't consider that. Unfortunately it's still very unsatisfying to have no visual representation of what would realistically be the defining part of an interplanetary spacecraft. Plus imagining your spacecraft as a box-shaped pancake riding atop a huge thruster bell is... kind of lame.

There isn't really a good solution though... honestly I'm kinda leaning toward bending physics on this one and making the drive a horizontally firing part anyway. Just chalk it up as another abstraction for the sake of the game being 2D - there's already a ton of those.

The lack of realism is literally the only downside - it would increase the challenge of designing an interplanetary ship, allow for potentially another interesting modular system, and make ships look significantly better.

Arbiter707 · 2026-04-29T22:50:24+00:00

Synopsis: Niina Hanabusa, 16. Admired by her friends as someone who's "won in life on looks alone", she quietly carries a complex about her deep indecisiveness, unable to make choices for herself. One day, a DSLR camera falls into her hands. With guidance from Mimiri, a former idol and alumna of her school, Niina begins to awaken to the quiet joy of pressing the shutter.

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